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9780198607021
"It is teeming with knowledge and alive with insights. Winchester handles humor and awe with modesty and cunning. His devotion to the story is the more eloquent for the cool-handedness of its telling. His prose is supremely readable, admirable in its lucid handling of lexicographical mire....[A] deft and engrossing story....Winchester, Simon is the author of 'Meaning of Everything The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary' with ISBN 9780198607021 and ISBN 0198607024.
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